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▪ I. † puckle, n.1 Obs.
[OE. púcel, f. púca, puck n.1 + -el, -le 1.]
A kind of bugbear.
c1000Boulogne Glosses to Prudentius in Germania N.S. XI. 394/242 Faunos, wude wasan. Priapos, pucelas. c1450Poucle [see puck-needle]. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. vii. xv. 153 The hell waine, the fierdrake, the puckle, Tom thombe, hob gobblin,..and such other bugs. 1830Scott Demonol. 180 That Phuca is a Celtic superstition from which the word Pook or Puckle was doubtless derived.
▪ II. puckle, n.2 Sc.|ˈpʌk(ə)l|
[Local var. pickle n.2]
An indefinite amount, a few.
1877G. Stewart Shetland Fireside Tales x. 78 A ‘puckle o' oo’ when da sheep wis rued. 1917A. S. Neill Dominie Dismissed vi. 86 Aw need hardly say onything aboot the object o' this concert, but it's to get a puckle bawbees to send oot a clean pair o' socks and maybe a clean sark to oor local sojers oot in France. 1930Aberdeen Univ. Rev. XVII. 103 A hinna heard o' im for a gey puckle year an' A doot 'e maun be deid. 1968E. Buckler Ox Bells & Fireflies xii. 165 The man with a small nest egg had saved up ‘quite a puckle’. |